The Advanced Placement World History (APWH) course is an intensive, year long, examination of global history from the period of 8000 B.C.E. to the present. The purpose of APWH is to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. This course also builds an understanding of cultural, institutional and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage.

The course is broken down into five major periods of study. They are: ➢ Foundations: 8000 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
➢ 600 C.E. to 1450
➢ 1450 to 1750
➢ 1750 to 1914
➢ 1914 to the present

APWH Course Themes:

The APWH course is guided by six themes which will receive equal attention throughout the course:1. The dynamics of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course, and the causes and processes involved in major changes ofthese dynamics.2. Patterns and effects of interaction among societies and regions: trade, war,diplomacy and international organizations.3. The effects of technology, economics and demography on people and theenvironment (population growth and decline, disease, labor systems, manufacturing, migrations agriculture and weaponry.)4. Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major featureswithin and among societies, and assessing change and continuity).5. Cultural, intellectual and religious developments, including interactions among and within societies.6. Changes in functions and structures of states and attitudes towards statesand political identities (political culture), including the emergence of nation-state(types of political organization).

APWH Habits of Mind or Skills:

The APWH course addresses habits of mind or skills in two categories: (1) those addressed by any rigorous history course, and (2) those addressed by a world history course.

Four habits of mind are in the first category: ➢ Constructing and evaluating arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments. ➢ Using documents and other primary data: developing the skills necessary to analyze point of view, context and bias and to understand and interpret information. ➢ Assessing issues of change and continuity over time, including the capacity to deal with changes as a process and with questions of causation. ➢ Understanding diversity of interpretations through analysis of context, point of view and frame of reference.

Three habits of mind belong in the second category: ➢ Seeing global patterns and processes over time and space while also connecting local developments to global ones and moving through levels of generalization from the global to the particular. ➢ Comparing within and among societies, including comparing societies’ reactions to global process. ➢ Being aware of human commonalities and differences while assessing claims of universal standards, and understanding culturally diverse ideas and values in historical context.

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Chapter 1 and 2
1. Analyze the continuities and changes that resulted from the spread of agriculture beginning around 10,000 years
ago to 5000 years ago.
2. Compare the interaction between humans and the environment between two of the following types of societies
between 3000 B.C.E.
a. Hunter-gather
b. Agricultural
c. Pastoral
Chapter 3
1. Analyze the continuities and changes in social and economic life that emerged as a result of the formation of
city-states from 3500 B.C.E. to 600 B.C.E.
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a. Mesopotamia
b. Egypt
c. Indus River
d. Shang China
Chapter 4
1. Analyze the continuities and changes in political structure from the time of the river valley societies (circa 3500
B.C.E.) to the political structure of classical-age empires up to 600 B.C.E.
2. Compare the political structures of two of the following classical-age empires.
a. Persian Empire
b. Roman Empire
c. Mauryan Empire
d. Qin Dynasty Empire
Chapter 5
1. Analyze the continuities and changes in religious belief systems from 600 B.C.E. and 600 C.E. in one of the
following regions.
a. Middle East
b. South Asia
c. East Asia
2. Compare the core beliefs of two religious traditions that emerged before 600 C.E.
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Chapter6- Classical Era Variations: Africa and the Americas500B.C.E.–1200C.E.
Learning Targets
★ Analyze classical civilizations thatevolvedoutsideof themorewell-known civilizations of Eurasia
★ Comparethedevelopmentof civilizationsinAfrica and the Americas
★ Examinethefactorsthatmakecivilizationsdevelop andanalyzewhytheydevelop differentlyin someregions
★ Distinguishthecharacteristics of complex civilizationsandjudgewhether theycould develop without any recognizable centralized control
Big Picture Questions
1. “The particular cultures and societies of Africa and of the Americas discussed in this chapter developed largely in isolation from one another.” What evidence would support this statement and what might challenge it?
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3. How did African proximity to Eurasia shape its history? And how did American separation from the Eastern Hemisphere affect its development?
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